Banded cigar, band label and process of applying same



05,148. Patehted Jan. 31,1922.

6. J. NAGEL.

BANDEQ CIGAR, BAND LABEL, AND PROCESS OF APPL'YIN G SAME.-

' APPLICATION FILED m. 15. 1919.

GUSTAV JOI-IANNES NAGEL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BANDED CIGAR, BAND LABEL. AND PROCESS OF APPLYING SAME.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 31, 1922.

Application filed October 15, 1919. Serial No. 330,917.

To all whom it may concern:

Be'it known that I, GUSTAV J. NAGEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at 10 E. 16 St, in the city and county of New York and State of New York, haveinventcd an Improvement in Banded Cigar, Band. Label, and Processes of Applying Same, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in band-like labels for compressible articles, such, for example, as a cigar band-label, and has for its objects the production of a label of this character which is easily applied by mechanical means to a cigar, is readily removable therefrom by the smoker, while fectively defying accidental displacement and yet withal is cheap and sanitary. Furthermore, this invention is intended as an improvement upon the band-label disclosed in my prior Patent No. 1,215,051.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, I have illustrated a band-label for cigars embodying my' invention. Referring to such drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the band, developed.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of a cigar with the label applied thereto, but prior to the compressionof the cigar.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary perspective view showing the cigar and band of Fig. 2 after the compression but before the final folding operation.

Figure 4 is a similar fragmentary view showing the completed band in position on the cigar and Figure 5 is a similar fragmentary perspective showing the simple manipu lation required to remove the band.

The reference numeral 1 designates the shank or body of the band, 2 the engaging end and 3 the receiving end. The latter is provided with an extension 8 and ears or tabs 4 and 5 respectively.

In the procedure of applying the band to a cigar, preferably a freshly made cigar and not one which is so dried out as to be noncompressible or inelastic, the elements are folded over each other in the following order: The end 2 is lapped over the end 3' and the tab 5 is then folded over end 2, whereupon tab 4 is folded over flap 5 and sufiicient pressure is exerted to temporarily flatten the curvature of the cigar immediately beneath the flaps as well as the cur-- vature of the flaps themselves so as to render the same substantially flat whereupon, by the release of the pressure, the outward pres-i sure as hereinafter explained, which is exerted in the direction of the arrows shown in Figure 4, will be sufficient to exert strains that will positively hold flap 4 in its original. position.

Said iiaps'4 and 5 are of sufficient length and width respectively that when said band is applied to a freshly made cigar and when end 2 is superimposed upon the end 3' carrying said'flaps the latter are folded outwardly and over the said superimposed end 2, the frictional engagement between said flaps after the same have been firmly pressed against said superimposed. end 2 will be sufficient to not only prevent it from accidentally slipping out of engagement with said flaps but will be suflicient to snugly hold the uppermost flap 4 against the lower flap 5.

The tab 4 is relatively long with respect to its width and must be of sufiicient length to afford an effective gripping surface for engagement with the free or engaging end 2 of the band when its application to the cigar has been completed, as shown in Fig. 4. The tab 5 on the other hand is not only adapted, by virtue of its length, to afford an effective gripping surface for the opposing margin of the end 2 to that gripped by the tab 4, but to effectively project beneath the edge of tab 4 and also serve as a convenient means for removing the band from the cigar without in any way damaging the wrapper of the cigar. The remarkable persistency wit-h which the receiving end 3 and engaging end 2 will grip each other, where the band is applied in the manner herein described, may be best explained by the fact that, upon the simultaneous compression of the band and depression of the cigar, the lines of force are as indicated by the arrows in Fig. 3, whereas, immediately upon the release of the pressure positively applied to the band and the cigar, the natural elasticity of the cigar immediately exerts a pressure, and a relatively great one at that, in the direction of the arrows shown in Fig. 4, all along the overlapped area of the band and as a consequence the frictional engagement of the ends 2 and 3 is so reat as to prevent the slipping of said en s with respect to each other. This eifectlve connection of the ends renders unnecessary the unsanitary application of an adhesive to the ends of the band and also eliminates the possibility of the accidental cementing of the band to the cigar wra per which often occurs as a result of surplus adhesive oozing out from between the ends.

iilthough the outward pressure 'of the cigar upon the band tends to hold the tab l against tab 5, the said tab 4i can be readily picked up bv inserting the finger nail be ncath (see Fig. the same when it is desired to tear off the band from the cigar.

Preferably the band is sufficiently long so that the end 2 will extend beyond the area of the end 3 which carries the tabs 4 and 5, thereby the pressure from the cigar will tend to positively create a depression in the bottom of end 2, adjacent but not at the extreme tip of end 2, corresponding to the area of that portion of the tabs forced into contact therewith and the outermost tip of end 2 will be less likely to pass between the inner surface of the tabs 4 and 5, whenv folded,

and the inner surface of that portion of end 8 to which they are attached.

Another feature which renders this band especially suitable for application by a ma chine is that where the tabs or flaps 4 and are extended in the position shown in Fig. 1. the application of pressure thereto will force the same upwardly sufiiciently to enable them to be engaged by the folding ele ments of a folding machine.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

l. The method of banding a compressible object having a curved periphery, which consists in enveloping the same with a band of substantially greater length than the periphery of said article and having one end of greater extent transversely than the other at the point of engagement of said band and said article, exerting a radial pressure upon said band and article sufiicient to partially flatten the same, then at least approximately enveloping the smaller end with the larger in such a manner that the band proper and said folded ends lie inintersecting planes.

2. A band marker, comprising a strip of flexible material having opposing tabs proj ecting from the lateral margins of said strip adjacent one end thereof and the other free end of said strip being adapted to snugly fit between and lie beneath said tabs when the latter are folded thereupon one of said tabs being of sufficient length to overlap the other tab when both are folded toward each other across the band and said longertab also being wider than long.

3. A band marker comprising a strip of flexible material having opposing tabs projecting from the lateral margins of said strip adjacent one end thereof and the other free end of said strip being adapted to snugly fit between and lie beneath said tabs when the latter are folded thereupon, one of said tabs being of suflicient length to overlap the other tab when both are folded tovard each other across the band and'said longer tab also having a base-portion of considerable width so as to afford an extensive area for gripping the said free end of the strip when the same is inserted beneath and between said tabs. 7

4:. The combination comprising" a cigar and an encircling band tightly engaging the same, said band having one end projecting )eneath outwardly folded oppositely posi- I tioned tabs projecting from the lateral margins of the other end, said tabs being long enough for one to overlie the other and the upper tab being of greater transverse extent than the lower so that the same lap and are held against each other by the radial pres sure exerted by the cigar against said band.

GUSTAV JorIANNEs NAGEL. 

